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Zoom for @George_Rude_Soc/ @thesfhs on Publishing French & Francophone Hist. in a Global Age. @DavidSm54263703: #BLM has prompted recoking "w/OUR failure to address white supremacy, cult. dominance, & privilege as well as the forms of racism still present in scholarly publishing"
Smith adds:How do journal editors train ourselves to be more cognizant of our biases? How do we ensure that reviewers are not dismissive of new scholarship that challenges assumptions of dominant scho'ship? How can we create a more diverse field? "We must go beyond lip service"
Great to hear this from the Editor-in-Chief of @HFranceWebsite #SFHSRudé2020
As I've said b4, the whiteness of our French hist. societies is striking v. the many other venues where scholars of African descent who work on France present. @DavidSm54263703 is right that we need soul-searching to see which practices are unwittingly exclusionary #SFHSRudé2020
I appreciate Julia Osman chiming in to echo David & to say that similar conversations are going on in @WestFrenchHist. #SFHSRudé2020 #WSFH
Osman: WSFH Proceedings used to only publish material that had been presented live @WestFrenchHist conf. But now the journal welcomes submissions from scholars outside soc. *all year*. Their eds. work to be welcoming, friendly to emerging scholars trying to publish 1st article.
Osman highlights work led by @clpichichero & Emily Marker for roundtables & other work to see what racist practices might exist in WSFH, so they can be rooted out.
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Tho I'm less involved @WestFrenchHist than when I was Secy, makes me a proud life member!)
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Tho I'm less involved @WestFrenchHist than when I was Secy, makes me a proud life member!)
@DavidSm54263703 re H-France debacle last month involving attack on @FictionsofHaiti.
We need to demand more of ourselves as editors
When our discussions spill out into social media, we want them to reflect the values that we say we value
H-France deserved this criticism
We need to demand more of ourselves as editors
When our discussions spill out into social media, we want them to reflect the values that we say we value
H-France deserved this criticism
D. Smith: The failure to embrace an antiracist agenda has been egregious given that the shift to a global frame has been over the last 30 years, same time as H-France. He says he bears the responsibility. In 11 months remaining, he hopes to do all he can...
He notes that the @HFranceWebsite report on what happened is now with ad hoc committee on D&I which will review it (Disclosure: including me). Smith says that beginning with our report, he will review all of H-France’s operations. #SFHSRudé2020
Smith adds: He’ll do so while maintaining H-France as a space in which there can be vigorous debates, but with full voice & respect to those who have been historically marginalized. #SFHSRudé2020
He says that in the 11 mos. til he hands over HFrance to @mpbreen21, "they will have created a more diverse, inclusive & just foundation for H-France." (I hope I got that quote right David). I'll add that in the wake of what happened, I am so happy to hear this....
(Indeed, those of us on the committee reviewing the Incident Report hope our suggestions will be incorporated & we are glad H-France shares these important goals for improving H-France). I'm personally grateful to Mita Choudhury for leading this work.
Happy to hear Carol Harrison of French Historical Studies also say that the journal is committed to "Decolonizing scholarship and combating racism" [Carol, I may have gotten the 2nd verb wrong?]. Makes me happy to hear as a former edit. bd. member. 
Mita Choudhury during Q&A: who has the authoritative voice in what gets published? How can we at the different journals do the soul-searching about racism and exclusion that @DavidSm54263703 is talking about?
More from @DavidSm54263703: People in leadership positions in French hist. MUST prioritize decolonizing our field. They need to realize it matters not just now, but for the longterm success of our field. We now longer have the luxury of ignoring or just giving lip service...
...to issues of diversity and inclusion. It shouldn’t only be after a crisis like we had in @HFranceWebsite. He continues that we need to understand the kinds of discrimination and prejudice our colleagues of color have suffered, and then transform ourselves. #SFHSRudé2020
Haha - I interrupted livetweeting to listen to @clpichichero - & then ended up speaking myself. Christy pointed out that having "bias training" for journal editors is not a quick fix - there is a complex web of institutional & methodological biases that layer onto other biases.
She also pointed to the tension between our need to *listen to disaffected* scholars, who have been excluded & harassed, BUT not to culturally tax them by making them alone responsible for DEI initiatives.
I spoke (as @Laprofmme kindly picked up when I stopped tweeting to talk): https://twitter.com/Laprofmme/status/1286066701814071298. I praised the panel for what I had heard, & also praised Mita Choudhry & @clpichichero for the work they've been doing behind the scenes in committees.
I won't summarize myself more though I did continue 
Then Osman made some moving & important points re rethinking *where* legitimacy resides in our field: is it only senior white males? Do they constitute the autorité ultime & the ones who finally mark off if work is "good"?
Then Osman made some moving & important points re rethinking *where* legitimacy resides in our field: is it only senior white males? Do they constitute the autorité ultime & the ones who finally mark off if work is "good"?
Harrison concluded that she was energized by the session, after so many depressing zooms on the state of COVID univs. She left panel feeling good about commitment to "expansionism [& another word I can't remember 
]" Thanks to #SFHSRudé2020 for making this great panel LIVE!
]" Thanks to #SFHSRudé2020 for making this great panel LIVE!
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